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3D printing company Shapeways had a banner 2012 — it locked up a $6.2 million Series B last year in a round led by Lux Capital, and established a full-blown factory in Long Island City. And it’s hoping to make the process of designing and printing physical knickknacks even easier...

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Citrix has announced that it has acquired Podio, the Copenhagen-based online collaboration service. Aimed at businesses, Podio is a service that allows users to create their own apps for use within their teams. So, the accountancy team could create an app to automate their workflow, for example. Founded by Jon...

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There’s man and there’s machine. And then there’s Alegion. The Mill Creek, Wash.-based startup launched at Amazon Web Services’ Re: Invent conference in late November with a business model that aims to turn crowdsourcing labor into the perfect blend of human-machine interaction. Crowdsourcing hasn’t really taken off, Alegion Co-founder and...

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Microsoft has acquired InCycle’s release management solution InRelease, a tool for automatically deploying application components to target services in different environments. InCycle is a Canadian company that specializes in application lifecycle management (ALM) and release management solutions on Microsoft’s .NET platform. As Microsoft is only acquiring its InRelease business unit,...

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What comes out of a 3-month-long project involving journalists, designers, and developers across two countries, spanning five editorial desks? Well, lots of lessons. Here's our top 10.1. Don't let your assets terrorise youIn a rich media piece like Firestorm - we had 25 scenes set across 6 chapters - there...

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CS Odessa, the creators of ConceptDraw, the business process diagramming software, has released an update to its PRO software. The upgraded version integrates with ConceptDraw’s Office software suite to let users better plan their projects using its visual interface. If you’ve ever been a fan of whiteboarding and sketching out your ideas,...

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Box today announced a major update to its Android app with its release of version 2.0. It’s been a busy few weeks for the cloud storage specialist, who only last week announced the release of its dedicated app for Windows 8. With this release, users are now able to streamline their...

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Photo: Andy Ciordia/Flickr “CRM for your life” might sound like a service that only highly organized nerds could love (especially if you call it customer relationship management for your life). But even those who don’t obsessively sort their inbox by labels or color-code their closet by season can find something...

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Hearsay Social, a startup backed by New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital, has tried to solve many of the challenges facing large brands that need to manage the social media presence of local branches or franchises. Its latest step: Launching a “Content Exchange” where brands can find and share articles....

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On the show floor at NAB 2012 GoPro had more to show off than just a finalized version of its $99 WiFi BacPac and Remote Control kit we saw at CES, announcing a ProTune firmware update that should bring an all new level of quality to its existing HD...

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More Info Livescribe unleashes new Echo smartpen Livescribe outs the Sky WiFi Smartpen Smartpen leads to airport chaos For a relatively niche company that has only been around for five years, Livescribe has grown quickly. Its smartpens -- which cleverly digitize handwritten notes and audio -- have already attracted...

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What should you consider when moving your computing setup to a laptop and mobile? Image by bigpresh The Mobile Computing Outpost often poses provocative questions about the future of computing while staying grounded. Recently, babyachilles described a situation where he would need a nimble and portable computing setup: "I...

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For all of you developers out there, you know how difficult it is to manage all of the bugs that pop up in the code that you push on a daily basis. Sometimes, you just don’t know when things will go wrong in production, therefore you have to be nimble...

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Facebook is wrapping up a session at its Menlo Park headquarters today where brought reporters up-to-date on its ad program and announced some upcoming changes. The big vision, according to Product Manager Fidji Simo, is to simplify the general process of running ad campaigns. She said that when Facebook looked...

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One of the big questions about Google Glass is how it will affect the way we consume information (if, that is, it gains popularity and acceptance in mainstream culture). In particular, many people are interested in how Glass will affect news consumption. We’ve already seen how the New York Times...

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Office for iPad is a long-standing rumor that frankly becomes less interesting to me with every day that passes, thanks in large part to great third-party apps like Haiku Deck that are stepping up to take advantage of Microsoft’s waffling on the matter. Haiku Deck was a great product when...

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Short Version The Doxie Go is a portable scanner with a built-in battery and 512 MB of internal memory. You can bring it anywhere with you and scan all your documents before throwing them away. But the best part is the application that comes with it. It integrates with cloud...

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Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where a photo-sharing mobile app gets bought for $1 Billion, it's refreshing to see...

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The Internet has no boundaries. No limits. No edge. For all practical purposes, you will never reach the end of the Internet. Which is why it is so strange that working from Chrome OS, the portal to the Internet, induces flashbacks to older platforms that mess with the entire...

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First went Skype, now goes Skitch. (Must be something in the Sk-water.) Yet another app update is on its way today for iOS users and this time, it's Evernote's productivity app that's seeing a version bump. Bundled into this 2.0.3 update is a new text editor that the company...

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Adobe late Monday announced the new Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11, the company's consumer-level photo-editing and video-editing programs. The new versions have both been given makeovers in the user interface once again, with modes separated by skill levels (three in PS Elements, two in Premiere Elements) and new...

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With all the talk about Apple’s iPad, I’m noticing two trends. First, the device is polarizing opinions — people either lust for it or say they don’t see the point of it. Very few seem to be “on the fence” about the iPad. But there’s a common thread among all...

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When I was in Austin earlier this year, there was one company people kept pushing me to meet with: WP Engine. The company provides a one-stop shop for all WordPress hosting needs, with the goal of simplifying the lives of WordPress developers and users. Today, the company is taking a...

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When Wacom teased a tablet-sized offering a few months back, our curiosity was immediately piqued. However, the next reveal from the pen-wielding-peripheral company was the Cintiq 13HD: a product more in line with the outfit's existing offerings bearing the same moniker. We guess we'll just have to keep waiting...

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How many mobile acquisitions and team hires can Facebook do in one month? Too many to count, apparently. There was mobile commerce startup Karma, then they hired the team from Android developer shop Lightbox. Now the developers from Pieceable, which created an easy way for publishers to build their apps...

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It’s not easy to find the perfect workflow for Web development, but after a certain amount of time, many devs start working off of their own templates as a starting point. In the end, there’s often no need to write out your stylesheet from scratch, even if it just means...

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eBay today released a significant update to its iOS app, introducing a streamlined selling process that makes setting up auctions (or buy-it-now instant purchases) a much simpler task. Like the traditional eBay website, the iOS app will now assist you in choosing the right category for your item. It...